Sentences with phrase «reader reads for pleasure»

Not exact matches

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

As the survey revealed, a whopping 93 % of Brits like to read for pleasure and, what's more, just 2 % of Brits surveyed consider readers (and reading) to be boring.

It reads: «I have seen personally, in my school visits up and down the country, how they promote reading for pleasure and in doing so, turn pupils into avid readers.

Adam Steiner (@steineredtech) recommends the blog post of social studies teacher Jay Barry, who notes the trend that «many boys stop reading for pleasure in middle school and those that are reading often choose books that do not challenge them as readers.»

With this book, you and your staff will learn: approaches to help poor readers develop good reading habits; ways to increase student interest in reading for pleasure; how to effectively incorporate reading into subject areas such as social studies, science, and math; examples of what works according to school personnel in regard to reading instruction; and how to motivate students to become engaged readers.

A 9th grade language arts teacher explains how her school helped struggling readers by placing them in an Academic Literacy class that gave them time to read books for pleasure and helped them develop strategies for choosing books, eliminating distractions, and monitoring their thinking as they read.

This effect can not only reach literacy ability levels (especially in reluctant readers and at - risk students), but can also stand to improve readers» attitudes towards reading for pleasure.

This book is such a pleasure to read that it presents a dilemma for readers who will find themselves racing through it to know the final outcome whilst at the same time, wishing for it not to end.

Following are the best epub readers for Windows devices so that you can enjoy the pleasure of reading even from your laptop, desktop or a better convertible device.

One of the major focuses for the recent event was the emphasis on government spending on education, which translates into higher literacy rates, a better level of English - language instruction which will allow more readers to enjoy English pleasure reading, and a growing interaction with tablet computers thanks to spending initiatives to put more tablets in schools at even the primary levels.

A contributor to the Romance section of Gale's What Do I Read Next, co-author of Voice of Youth Advocate's annual «Clueless: Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal» column, a reviewer for Library Journal, and co-author of The Mystery Readers» Advisory: The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem (2001), Charles was named 2002 Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America and names good chocolate and good books as two of the world's great pleasures.

It took 14 months of R&D for Bookeen to develop not just a digital reader, but a new kind of book, where the size format, style, ergonomics, and tactile feel combine for the user's genuine reading pleasure

It's one thing to change the way we read from words on paper to words on an electronic e-Ink display that emulates paper, but is it really likely that the activity, processes, pleasures and utility of reading are going to transformed from words to words and video and audio for a critical mass of readers?

I noticed that all my voracious readers in class - those who read for pleasure - always excelled in English and language arts.

With ebook covers visible only to the reader, voyeuristic pleasure is gone for those who like spying on what others are reading on the train.

Even if you assume only the more intelligent 2/3 of adults could read for pleasure (which may be less than the real figure), and I would appeal to 1:10 000 — that's still near 16000 readers in the US alone, which if I cleared $ 1 a book (my average through tradition publishing HC, Paperback and webscription) and wrote two books a year — would be a living of sorts.

I suspect even erotica readers would want to read about characters who truly value and care for each other rather than just using each other for pleasure.

And I say only «somewhat sadly» because the inability to properly review, aside from causing some guilt, has also allowed me to read for pleasure and nothing else and remind me of the kind of reader I once was: voracious, relaxed, in the moment.

Some readers explained that while they enjoy paper books for pleasure reading, they prefer e-books for their textbooks.

Compared with others, e-book readers are more likely to say that their greatest pleasure in reading is for the escape and imaginative experience.

Those who read e-books are more likely than other people to say they read for every purpose and to do so frequently — that includes those who read for pleasure (92 % of e-book readers do that); to keep up with current events (87 % of e-book readers do that), to research specific topics that interest them (92 % of e-book readers do that) and for work or school (78 % of e-book readers do that).